Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Character is power.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.